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Susan Shwartz

Art: Richard Bober

Cross and Crescent (Shards of Empire, Book 2)Tor (reprint, trade paperback, 382 pages, $14.95/$21 Can)
Publication date: July 6, 1999 (First Edition: Dec 1997)
The sequel to Shards of Empire, from the author of The Grail of Hearts.
"Once Byzantium was the meeting place of East and West, the Holy City where subtle princes,
rich merchants, and scheming priests built great monuments to the glory of God and their
own ambition. But now, after centuries of power, the Imperial throne is in danger. The forces
of Islam have captured Jerusalem, Christianity's holiest city, and all seems lost. From the
West have come Jerusalem's saviors--the armies of Franks, Normans, and other Christians
-- who are willing to die to reclaim the city.
For Leo Dorcas, a man who was once a hairsbreadth away from the throne, the Crusaders
represent hope and danger in equal measure. For his wife, Asherah, the beautiful and
haunting Jewess, the barbarians are nothing but the murderers of her people. And for
Binah, their bewitching daughter, they are but pawns in her own mysterious game."
Review by Steven H Silver

Shards of EmpireTor
Leo Duca, nobleman of the Byzantine Empire, finds himself exiled outside the bounds of
civilization. But in the wilderness he finds there are also conspiracies, and no
shortage of genuine danger, the kind he thought he'd left behind...